You cannot help me because you're a woman!

[pacman]

Hi. I just recently got a customer come in and when I asked if I can help him, he said no.

Here the conversation we got in:

Me:
SC: Old man (doesn't confide in women knowing about computers)

Me: Hi, how can I help you?
SC: You can't.
Me: Please let me hear the problem you're having in case I could after all help you.
SC: No, you can't. You don't know about computers.
Me: Please tell me, I'm sure I can help.
SC: You know about setting passwords to the computer?
Me: Where in the computer do you want to have a password? (meaning, email, computer login, internet account user/pass)
SC: Yes. I told you you can't help me, I'll be waiting for the guy there.
Me:

He waited for the guy (let's call him K here) and K needed to ask ME about the password he was about to set up in the SC's computer. The customer looked a bit embarrassed...

[princess4life]

I get this all the time, 2 out of 3 of my jobs are mainly things that guys do so there are alot of people that think because I am a girl I don't know anything or that I can't handle myself.

I have worked in/ with computers for years so when people call with technical questions I can answer just as well as any guy. And then with my security position I have been training on martial arts for 18 years and I am training to be a cop so contrary to some people's belief when they see little me I can handle myself as well.

[pacman]

Exactly. I've just started to practice taekwon-do (ITF version), I've self compiled kernels to Linuxes I've been using for approx 7 years now, I've been in touch with computers since I was 10 so I think I know my way around them too. It's soooooooo annoying when there comes some POS claiming I can't do my job. Even if I prove I can handle computer software and hardware.

[Neo_Classic]

I get that at Home Depot. I went from cashier to Hardware and it was impossible to get some guys to take me seriously. I stopped caring after a while. I get this as a manger too. Oh noes! She can't possibly be a manager.

[Talon]

Well at least the moron had enough good grace to look embarrassed. An apology would have been even better, but we can't expect miracles right?

[LifeCarnie]

I get this all the time, 2 out of 3 of my jobs are mainly things that guys do so there are alot of people that think because I am a girl I don't know anything or that I can't handle myself.

This happens at all levels of service. A former manager of mine, who also happens to be one of the best bosses I've had, was subjected to the same kind of discrimination from one of our customers.

The customer wound up talking to her boss and making himself look like a total ass in the process.

[ThePhoneGoddess]

God, how annoying is that?

I used to take my car to a garage in Santa Fe that was run by a woman. She had a big ad in the yellow pages with her pic that said 'Woman owned and operated'. And yet people still were dicks to her.

One time I was in the lobby behind this guy who was upset over something, and he asked for the manager. She came out and asked what she could do for him and he sneered at her and said "YOU"RE the manager?!"

She said "yes, I am the manager."

He goes "Don't lie to me. Your husband runs this shop. I wanna speak to him now!"

She pulled out the phone book and shoved the ad in front of his face. "What does that say?" He just looked at it incredulously, and she then told him to get the hell out of her shop and never come back, and he slunk away.

Everyone was laughing at him.

[greensinestro]

I just have one question to ask. Did this guy actually say anything about how you could not help him because you're a woman? Or was he just insinuating it?

I don't have a problem with women doing the same jobs the men do. In fact, I welcome women showing they can be just as tough as the guys on virtually anything.

[Yfandes]

Oh Ive had to deal with this for years. Crusty engineers, sailors, members of the old boys club. Ive been working with them long enough that now they depend on me to make their computers work.

And when they ask for help now? I shout out "I cant do that! Im a giiiiirrrrrrllllllllll"

They have the grace to still look embarrassed, and I get a chuckle everytime.

[Bagga]

The OP should tell the customer about Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper...

Or refer the SC to this page:

http://www2.okbu.edu/business/facult...rogramming.htm

[Jester]

I'm a guy. I know my way around the kitchen (better than most), I can type ridiculously fast, I can do my own laundry (though retired from said activity years ago, preferring to just drop it off and pick it up), and can even design costumes pretty well.

I'm a guy. I know almost nothing about how my car or computer work, strip clubs really don't do it for me (anymore), fishing has never interested me, I know how to dress nicely, guns really don't interest me and kind of make me nervous, and professional wrestling bores the piss out of me.

No, I'm not gay. Not even metrosexual. Hell, I'm a hardcore football fan who likes to drive fast, drink beer, smoke cigars, and look at chicks.

I'm a guy. I just don't fit into every stereotype people have. And I am just fine with that. And fine with having my computer or car fixed by a woman who knows what she's doing. I'm not threatened by women doing "men's" jobs, nor by having women as my bosses.

I'm a guy. I'm secure with myself and what I do and what I like to do.

I'm a guy. You got a problem with that?



To quote George yet again: "Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize....half of them are even stupider than that."

[pacman]

I just have one question to ask. Did this guy actually say anything about how you could not help him because you're a woman? Or was he just insinuating it?

Actually, he said, "You're a woman. You don't know about such things I'm going to talk to that male person over there." (translated from Finnish, not word-to-word) So he explicitly said that because I'm a woman I can't handle the matter.

I'm a guy. I know almost nothing about how my car or computer work, strip clubs really don't do it for me (anymore), fishing has never interested me, I know how to dress nicely, guns really don't interest me and kind of make me nervous, and professional wrestling bores the piss out of me.

Hmhm... I'm a girl. I know pretty much about how my car and computer work, I'm interested in fishing, I like to wear jeans and an army-style sweater (NOT pink camo... ), and I occasionally take an airsoft game (real-looking weapons shooting small plastic ammo). But I'm also engaged to a guy that likes to do what I do, too.

Heh, I suppose I'm a bit of a freak... It just really doesn't matter me. I like being weird and doing things I like to do. And clothing is a thing one should feel comfortable in. Here it's ca -2 degrees Celsius (around 29 F) and still I see people wearing mini-skirts or such idiotic clothing. Sorry, I'm very tired so my thought just wanders around not making any kind of sense.

[Bright_Star]

Jeez! I thought this male chauvanist crap vanished at the turn of the century!

[Marxfan]

Jeez! I thought this male chauvanist crap vanished at the turn of the century!

I think there are certain men out there trying desperately to bring it back in vogue.

As for me, I embody a lot of girly stereotypes, but I greatly admire women who don't. Still, I believe that everyone, male or female, deserves the benefit of the doubt at their jobs in addition to being treated equally as human beings in everyday life.

[gerund]

Here is the best thing I ever saw happen to men with that attitude.

I was playing poker at a casino, mostly infested with old, bitter men. A pretty young girl sat down at the opposite end of the table. I was watching carefully (after all it was real money we were playing for)

She handed over her cash and received her chips. $200 worth of $5 chips was two stacks of 20 chips. She cut one stack into piles of 5, restacked them and pushed them against the other stack. I thought to myself "She's a dealer!"

The old men sitting next to me started muttering to each other - "Pretty little thing. What would she know about poker!" "We're going to take her money - she won't know what hit her."

Only problem was, she took their money. After she was finished, and was leaving the table, I asked her where she worked.

"I deal poker at (Other casino)"

She didn't get any of my money.

Gerund